Janice A. Black (Ph.D., Texas Tech University) is on the Management Faculty in the School of Business and Public Administration at California State University, Bakerfield. She just moved from Las Cruces, New Mexico (see photo at right) where she had been at NMSU since 1997.  Beginning with her dissertation, Dr. Black has been investigating the creation of the strategically important and socially-created resource of a context-for-learning.  Currently such an internal environment is critical as businesses and other organizations have to handle the tension between needs for innovation and current performance.  Furthermore, she is interested in how organizational leaders (entrepreneurs and small business owners) can develop specific leadership skills and learn to apply them in ways that enable their organizations to be successful.

     Dr. Black's work has been published in over 46 articles and been presented in major management conferences around the world (over 50 times since 1990). Her research has appeared in various management journals including the Strategic Management Journal, Entrepreneurship, Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Strategies, Emergence, Journal of Biblical Integration in Business, The Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, and Journal of Organizational Change Management along with several chapters in the Advances in Applied Business Strategy: Competence-Based Management series.

     Dr. Black and her colleagues have developed a computer simulation using the cutting edge focus of agent based modeling to model small business leader-follower interactions. Their work has been presented and published locally, regionally, nationally and globally. From this work, her current focus of interest is in the micro-business owner and critical growth transition points of going from being an entrepreneur to being an owner-supervisor and from being an owner-supervisor to being an owner-manager. She is also focusing on how the small business owner-supervisor or manager conveys a strategic focus and intent throughout an organization by using stories and illustrations.

     Dr. Black also provides consulting and leadership training for the health care, educational, governmental and professional services industries for firms in the U. S. and Mexico. You can contact her for participation in an organizational assessment that is part of her computer based research by email at jblack14@csub.edu  or by phone at 661-654-2388. Additional workshops are available on critical leadership and managerial skills.

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